Sublime

The final extirpation of Indian Country was a profoundly important event for Native Americans. Two decades later, the Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs set out to tell the tale. Riggs conceived and wrote his play in Paris—he frequented the café Les Deux Magots, where Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were also scribbling away. But his mind was

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Sinfonietta

The newest Cascadian takes the bait. “The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”

Mes quelques compagnons d’armes étaient partis s’installer à New York pour écrire de la poésie et faire des études d’art, et je me sentais terriblement seule. Je trouvais de la consolation dans Arthur Rimbaud, que j’avais trouvé à l’étal d’un bouquiniste en face de la gare routière de Philadelphie quand j’avais seize ans. Son regard hautain sur la

“I might not know your name,” Ma said, taking Zhu’s hand. “But I know who you are.”

He has always been alien to her, a man of procedures where there should be passions.